Piraat 10.5%

Brewed by Brouwerij Van Steenberge
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Ertvelde, Belgium

330 ML Bottle-Poured a Beautiful cloudy golden color w/a HUGE foamy, rocky, mountainous head. Took forever to go down & turn into thick lacing which lasted thru the brew. One of the most beautiful looking beers I’ve ever seen, if only the taste matched up to the appearence. Faint, sweet, Belgian aroma. Light Belgian flavor w/traces of sweetness & bread dough, but it was a very week flavored brew overall. Lacked the depth & freshness of a quality Belgian. Had some spice & carbonation, but had a thin & watery mouthfeel, no real decernable finish to speak of. Great dissapoinment based on how it looked out of the bottle, Thought this might end up being something special, but it just didn’t deliver. If they ramped up the flavor on this brew it could be truely great; alas it is just average!

Bottle. Moderate aromas of light bread, cereal and nuttiness for the malts, flowers for the hops, and dough and basement for the yeast with pepper and alcohol in the background. Head is fully diminishing, fizzy, white with fair lacing and the color is a sparkling golden amber. A great combonation of flavors with light sweetness and moderate acidity to start and moderate acidity and bitterness for the long finish. Palate is light to medium, between watery and oily and carbonation is lively. Nice beer that’s both rich and refreshing at the same time.

Bottle. Cloudy golden coloration, with a very nice white head, dense and consistent. Average carbonation. Perceivable alcohol. Citric. Notes of damson plum. Bitter final.

11.2 ounce bottle in Gulden Draak tulip. Pours bright golden honey color with enormous lasting rocky head and great lace. Faint citrusy hop aroma. Flavors of peach, honey, tobacco, slight alcohol, with clean spicy finish. Medium body, medium carbonation. Much better than I expected.

Drank in a tulip. Pour slowly! Excessive head. Malty aroma. Strong alcohol kick and a slight metallic taste. Drinkable but other Belgians are much better.

Bottle: Hazy peach color with an aroma that is first a very tart citrus, then a sweet apricot. In the mouth, this beer starts with apricot and cream like sweetness. The alcohol is very present. The cream lingers in the finish, which is dominated by spice.

lively into the glass golden brew is sweet and not very spicy. tangy and it advises you swiftly of its kick.touch of melon at first beer finishes of alcohol and insufficient hops. it is a bit chalky. not much of an aroma. back to taste after sitting some time a brandy grape taste arrives with a touch of honey. accomapnied by a more mellow finish. burp of nothing but alcohol.

Thick white thick lacing head on this golden beer (did I say thick?). Strong scent of alcohol with a follow through of citrus. Typical Belgian strong ale, but a little too strong. Hint of metallic. Not bad, but a little too strong alcohol tasting for my liking.